Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun potassium_chlorate

1 sense of potassium chlorate

Sense 1
potassium chlorate -- (a white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent)
       => salt -- (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))